Hi, I'm Erin. I work in a middle school library in Maine. I love to blog about anything that has to do with children's literature, the horror genre, authors, book festivals, arts and crafts, literary theory, film adaptations of books, history, libraries, classic film, women's studies and anything else that catches my interest.

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Gotta Love Those Little Girl Ghosts

Footsteps in the night. An old home with a dark history. Little girl ghosts. Demon possession. This book's got it all:

This is the kind of book I love. There's no waffling about, no trying to trick the reader into thinking there's a ghost only to discover that it was a sheet flapping on the clothesline (I'm looking at YOU, Nancy Drew!). . .we know there's a ghost pretty much from the beginning. We know that it's a creepy little girl ghost who wanders around in a wet dress and makes light bulbs explode.

The fun comes in not finding out if there IS a ghost, but WHY there's a ghost, and what's going to happen to it.

For fans of Mary Downing Hahn and Dan Poblocki, this book satisfies those of us who love a good old-fashioned ghost story (no vampires, zombies, witches or circus freaks allowed)

And I didn't know until I googled the book to get the cover image that there's a sequel to it:

The sequel was just released about a month ago, and now it's on my reading list.